drafts, hunchentoot-ii: Massage tcp likbez

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 [^1]: Quick likbez on how Unix and TCP make the whole thing work:
 
-       In (a), the operating system allows H to take over P, i.e. it
-    keeps a note somewhere that H's user process takes some sort of
-    ownership over P. In (b), the listen system call is called, which
-    puts P's TCP socket into the "listening" state, as specced in [RFC
-    793][rfc-793].
+       In (a), the operating system binds a socket S owned by H to P,
+    i.e. it keeps a note somewhere that subsequent connections to P
+    will be assigned to S and that H *may* accept said connections. In
+    (b), H signals its availability to receive connections by
+    performing the listen system call; this puts S into the
+    "listening" state, as specified in [RFC 793][rfc-793].
 
        At this point, whenever a TCP client wants to initiate a
     connection, it needs to go through the SYN-SYN+ACK-ACK three-way
     handshake hula hoop; so the client sends his SYN, and then in
     order for communication to move forward, the server must send his
     SYN+ACK, which only happens in the accept phase, i.e. (c). Then
-    the accept function returns a socket for the new connection, and
-    only then can actual HTTP communication start.
+    the accept function returns a new socket S' for the new
+    connection, and only then can actual HTTP communication start.
 
        I won't even go into the details of why this is retarded, it's
-    been beaten to death in [the logs][tcp]. Either way, if the
-    Republic wants to keep speaking with the heathen world, we're
-    stuck using and possibly maintaining this pile of shit.
+    been beaten to death in [the logs][tcp]. Either way, there's no
+    way around this pile of shit for nodes talking to the heathen WWW.
 
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